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Tada Yoshitoshi
was a Japanese samurai and scholar of kokugaku, known during his lifetime as an expert on ancient court ceremonial practices. He published ''ehon'' under the pen name , and also wrote under the names and . His full official name was . Biography Tada Yoshitoshi was born in 1698 to a gokenin family affiliated with Tada Shrine in Settsu Province. He was allegedly a descendant of the Heian period warrior-aristocrat Tada Mitsunaka. He studied Chinese literature as well as the Suika Shinto of Yamazaki Ansai under at Osaka. Tada subsequently became an active teacher of court ceremony and Shinto studies in that city. Later, he travelled to Kyoto to participate in research under the scholar . However, he was expelled by Tsuboi after publishing an essay in which he questioned the credibility of the Kuji Hongi. Before his death, Tada gained as a disciple of Owari Domain The Owari-Han, also known as the Owari Domain, was a significant feudal domain in Tokugawa shogunate, Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asada Domain
270px, Aoki Shigeyoshi, final daimyo of Tsuyama was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in what is now northern Osaka Prefecture. It was located in Teshima and Kawabe Districts of Settsu Province and was centered around Asada ''jin'ya'' in what is now part of the city of Toyonaka, Osaka. It was ruled in its entire history by a branch of the Aoki clan. The Asada Domain was dissolved in the abolition of the han system in 1871 and is now part of Okayama Prefecture. History Asada Domain was founded by Aoki Kazushige, whose father Aoki Shigenao had served as a vassal of Toki Yorinari, the '' shugo'' of Mino Province in the Sengoku period. Aoki Kazushige later went into the service of the Imagawa clan, and after the Battle of Okehazama, entered the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu. After this younger brother died at the Battle of Shizugatake, he ran away from the Tokugawa clan and became a vassal of Nawa Nagahide instead. He entered the service of To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamazaki Ansai
was a Japanese philosopher and scholar. He began his career as a Buddhist monk, but eventually came to follow the teachings of Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi. He combined Neo-Confucian ideas with Shinto to create Suika Shinto. Life Early years/Buddhism Born in Kyoto on January 24, 1619, Yamazaki Ansai was the son of a former rōnin-turned-doctor and the last of four children. In his youth, he was strongly influenced by both his mother and grandmother. While his mother "urged him to develop a noble heart worthy of a samurai's son," his grandmother supported him in his study of the Chinese language. In his preteens, he was sent by his father to serve as an acolyte at a Buddhist temple on Mount Hiei. In his early teens, Ansai returned home, and after several years was finally permitted to enter the Myōshin-ji temple of the Rinzai Zen sect in Kyoto for further study. Due to his incredible scholarly aptitude, in his early twenties he was granted entrance to the Gyūkō-ji temple in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kokugaku Scholars
was an academic movement, a school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok .... scholars worked to refocus Japanese scholarship away from the then-dominant study of Chinese classics, Chinese, Confucian, and Buddhist texts in favor of research into the early List of Japanese classical texts, Japanese classics. History What later became known as the tradition began in the 17th and 18th centuries as ''kogaku'' ("ancient studies"), ''wagaku'' ("Japanese studies") or ''inishie manabi'' ("antiquity studies"), a term favored by Motoori Norinaga and his school. Drawing heavily from Shinto and Japanese literature, Japan's ancient literature, the school looked back to a golden age of culture of Japan, culture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
